Identifier: gardenerschronic81877lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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tedbecause a scientific department like the IndianForest Service might easily obtain such a seriesof specimens for transmission to England as wouldenable the whole history of the Burmese Cardamom, DESIGNS FOR CONSERVA-TORIES. Horticultural builders have to study not onlythe requirements of plant growers but of architects.Conservatories intended to form part of the featuresof a mansion should obviously be in accordance withthe style of the building, and as these structures areprimarily designed for show houses rather than forhouses wherein to grow plants, their suitability to thelatter purpose is for this point of view a matter ofsecondary consequence. The accompanying designs(figs. 21, 22), prepared by Messrs. Weeks & Co,,show how well the horticultural builders can adapttheir structures to architectural requirements. In theone case we have a conservatory in the style of QueenAnne (stupidly called the Early English style), whilethe other is a Gothic design of Middle Pointed style.
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Fig. 21.—CONSERVATORY IN MIDDLE POINTED GOTHIC STYLE. further source of oil and feeding stuft wheti importedinto this country, appears to make this an industryextremely well adapted for Labuan and adjacentislands. I have taken steps to obtain seeds fromAfrica and also detailed information as-to the methodof preparation. Balsamocarpon brevifolium.—Our attentionhaving been drawn to a new tanning material knownas the Algarrobo of Chili, which appears to be ofvery high commercial value and far superior toDivi-Divi, a quantity of the pods (the part of theplant used) was obtained from Chili by the inter-vention o! 11.E. H. Rumbold, Her MajestysMinister at Santiago. It was distributed immediatelyto the following places as likely to prove suitable forits growth :—Adelaide, Bahamas, Barbadoes,Bermuda, Brisbane, Cape of Good Hope, GuneshKhind (Bombay), Lahore, Melbourne, Natal, W.Australia. Burmese Cardamoms.—A sample of these seedswas sent to Kew by the India Office for identification.

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